Friday, March 4, 2022

FLASHBACK: Experts Warned for Decades That NATO's Expansion Would Provoke Russia, Globalists Did Not Listen

Often lost in the haze of war is truth, but the truth regarding the Ukraine/Russia conflict is explicit, and many experts from varying ideological backgrounds have warned that NATO expansion would provoke hostilities for decades.

Renegade left-wing journalist Glenn Greenwald amplified a Twitter thread posted by observer Arnaud Bertrand of MeAndQi.com showing how the globalists ignored many warnings that pushing Ukraine toward NATO would lead to war.

"What's going on here is that the West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path. And the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked. And I believe that the policy that I'm advocating, which is neutralizing Ukraine, and then building it up economically, and getting it out of the competition between Russia on one side, NATO on the other side is the best thing that could happen to the Ukrainians," Mearsheimer said.

Others, such as Jack F. Matlock Jr., who served as US Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-1991, warned about the predictable consequences of NATO expansion back in 1997 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when it was being pushed by the Clinton administration.

Dissident far-left anarchist Noam Chomsky also noted that Ukraine entering NATO would initiate major conflict with Russia.

"Well, what happened? NATO instantly moved into East Germany and then Clinton came along and expanded NATO right to the borders of Russia. Now, the new Ukrainian government, the government established after the overthrow of the preceding one, now the parliament voted 300 to 8 or something like that, to move to join NATO," he continued, adding that the push to get Ukraine into NATO "Is not protecting Ukraine, it is threatening Ukraine with major war."

Stephen Cohen, a New York University professor who served as a scholar of Russian studies, warned in 2014 that Russia was not going to take a NATO expansion lying down.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/flashback-experts-warned-for-decades-that-natos-expansion-would-provoke-russia-globalists-did-not-listen/ 

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